News

April 20, 2004 16:23

• Survey on access to information in Nagorny Karabakh

  The goal of the survey it to disclose the real situation with access to information and freedom of expression in Nagorny Karabakh as well as to determine what problems in the given field people in the republic face with.

April 20, 2004 16:00

• Georgian Labor Party starts staging rallies

  The party's leader Shalva Natelashvili calls upon the whole Georgia "to teach the forgers some good sense and to take part in the actions for the protection of self-respect."

April 20, 2004 15:41

• 600 Russian soldiers said missing in Chechnya

  "578 servicemen of the defense ministry and other security agencies of the country went missing on the territory of Chechnya from 1994 till 1 April 2004," reported Maria Fedulova, a member of the Presidential Commission on War Prisoners, Interned Persons, and the Missing.

April 20, 2004 15:19

• Georgian parliament to look into Adjarian problem

  The date of the parliament's first session has not been fixed yet. According to Nino Burdjanadze, it will sit on April 22 or 23.

April 20, 2004 15:09

• Militants killed in 17 April operation in Ingushetia appear to be Wahhabis

  The killed militants appeared to have been Wahhabis, a source in the Ingush interior ministry reported. The terrorists also proved to have been linked to Chechen militant groups.

April 20, 2004 15:06

• Kavkaz Center: Abu al-Walid killed in air bomb explosion

  The leader of Arab mercenaries was offering a prayer at a mountain base of Mojaheds when a bomb blew up near him, according to the Chechen rebel website Kavkaz Center.

April 20, 2004 12:21

• Georgian defense ministry loses control of Batumi brigade

  Former commander of the Georgian interior ministry's 25th brigade Major-General Roman Dumbadze told a press conference on April 19 that he "places himself under the full authority of Adjarian head Aslan Abashidze."

April 20, 2004 12:13

• Unit commander of Kadyrov's security service killed in Chechnya

  The dead body of Artur Murzayev, a special operations unit commander of the Chechen President's security service, was found in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, in the evening of April 18.

April 19, 2004 19:04

• Revival party refuses to take part in work of Georgian parliament

  Six majority deputies for the autonomy elected in the course of the 2 November 2003 parliamentary elections made such a decision after consultations with their voters.

April 19, 2004 18:33

• Hostages killed during special operation in Ingushetia

  The military tried to persuade the rebels into stopping resistance and releasing the hostages. After all the means to persuade them into voluntarily giving themselves up had been exhausted, the decision was made to storm the house.

April 19, 2004 16:45

• Opposition activists detained in Kalmykia

  When three hours passed after the detention, no formal charges had been brought against the detainees and no report had been drawn up.

April 19, 2004 15:09

• Chairman of Georgian Central Election Commission to become Tbilisi mayor

  Chairman of the Georgian Central Election Commission Zurab Chiaberashvili has made a request to commission members today to release him from his duties.

April 19, 2004 14:46

• Abu al-Walid's brother confirms his death

  Al-Walid's bother, Bender al-Gamdi, said in his interview with the Al Hayat newspaper published today that he had been informed of the death of his brother in Chechnya. According to him, he received this information from a Chechen, a brother of Abu al-Walid's wife.

April 19, 2004 14:10

• Chechen prosecutor wants hard evidence of al-Walid's killing

  The office of the Chechen prosecutor has not confirmed that Abu al-Walid, an Arab mercenary, has been eliminated in Chechnya.

April 19, 2004 13:13

• Press conference devoted to air attack on Chechen village

  The press conference titled "Chechnya, Ingushetia: the Safety of the Population and State of IDPs [internally displaced persons]" will take place at the Independent Press Center on April 20.

April 19, 2004 12:49

• Terrorist act averted in Naursky district of Chechnya

  Field engineers neutralized a self-made bomb, which was mounted on a railway line.

April 19, 2004 12:36

• Local killed in Urus-Martan district of Chechnya

  As reported by locals, law enforcers in masks tried to illegally detain the man, but he put up armed resistance.

April 19, 2004 12:29

• Picket against war in Chechnya staged in Moscow after long break

  An officially authorized picket against war in Chechnya was staged on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow on April 15, for the first time after a long break. To remind, the picket on Pushkinskaya Square has been existing for four years already. Its participants were detained on March 11, the picket was banned, and its organizers stood trial.

April 19, 2004 11:54

• Leader of Arab mercenaries in Chechnya reportedly destroyed

  The field commander's brother said to Al Arabiya TV channel in El Riyadh, "It is true. We got to know about it already a day ago, but we don't know any details of the happening."

April 19, 2004 11:38

• Final parliamentary election returns announced in Georgia

  The following political parties will be represented in the Georgian parliament: the ruling United National Movement - Democrats party, which won 66.2% of the vote, and the Right - Industrialists bloc, which got 7.5% of the vote.